Foals announce UK and Ireland tour for 2013

The band are already set to tour the UK later this month (November) and early December, but have now announced a string of additional dates for February and March 2013. Last week, the band announced a one-off show at London's Royal Albert Hall on March 28, 2013, which sold out in 15 minutes.

Speaking to NME previously about the LP, singer Yannis Philippakis said: "There are some heavier moments and some dirtier moments. It's swampy, some of the grooves are quite stinky. There's a track called 'My Number' that had a Curtis Mayfield groove which was pretty unashamedly funk, for want of a better word."

He added: "We've always been pretty rhythmically preoccupied, but once the four-on-the-floor, hi-hat, indie disco stuff's dead and buried with a chain of garlic around its neck, that feels like a really fertile place to go to."

Scroll down to watch a video of Foals performing a special acoustic session of 'Spanish Sahara'.